The Political Sins Of Adwoa Safo Come Back To Haunt Her As Dome Kwabenya Delegates Vow To Vote Against Her In NPP Primaries
The embattled Member of Parliament for the Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo, is said to be having tough times in earning the forgiveness of her constituents and seeking their mandate in her reelection bid. Her first hurdle, which seems impossible is to try and convince NPP delegates that she is now a changed person, who is deserving of another chance to represent them as the Party’s Parliamentary Candidate.
The delegates have however overwhelmingly rejected her pleas, arguing strongly that it is her stock-in-trade to always pretend to be “an angel” when primaries (elections) are approaching in order to win sympathy votes, and soon thereafter, she does the complete opposite.
The delegates insist that they cannot be persuaded by Adwoa Safo’s usual pity card and deceptive antiques. They remind Adwoa Safo of her political sins against the NPP, her constituents and the Republic of Ghana, grounding their resolve to vote against her in the internal primaries of the Party. Adwoa Safo’s political sins, according to the delegates, include but not limited to the following:
- THE SIN OF ABANDONMENT
For over two years, Adwoa Safo chose to completely abandon her constituents and went to live abroad claiming to be to attending to some family matters. For two years, Dome Kwabenya Constituency didn’t have a Representative in Parliament to champion their cause. The Constituency didn’t have a voice in Parliament. Adwoa Safo equally abandoned her parliamentary duties, abandoned her ministerial duties, abandoned the NPP and abandoned her own government for over two years.
All attempts to get Adwoa Safo to come to Parliament to help the NPP government in the passage of critical bills and in the conduct of government business in Parliament always proved futile. She constantly held her own party and government to ransom insisting she wouldn’t come to Ghana and be in Parliament until certain conditions were met. Government sometimes had to spend millions of dollars on Adwoa Safo just to get her to come and do her job in Parliament.
Today, the NPP government felt compelled to take Ghana back to the IMF for financial bailout because of Adwoa Safo, whose deliberate refusal to come to Parliament to help government in the timely passage of its critical revenue bills including the e-levy among others, has occasioned our present economic woes. Without a shred of doubt, Adwoa Safo has done more harm to the NPP government than the Minority in Parliament. She is a danger and a great threat to the NPP’s electoral fortunes in 2024 than anyone else.
- THE SIN OF TURNING DOME KWABENYA INTO A LAUGHING STOCK
Adwoa Safo did not only abandon the Dome Kwabenya Constituency at the time her constituents needed her the most, but she also turned the Constituency into a laughing stock. Today, Dome Kwabenya has become the only Constituency in Ghana with a TikTok MP. Whereas all other Ghanaians search for their MPs in Parliament or in their respective Constituency Party offices, the people of Dome Kwabenya search for their MP only on TikTok.
Dome Kwabeya has become the only Constituency in Ghana, whose MP is a TikTok celebrity. Adwoa Safo is arguably the most popular TokTok star in Ghana. To make matter worse, when the people of Dome Kwabenya express their outrage at her maladjusted conduct, she adds insult to their injuries by doing more videos depicting her dancing-moves like Michael Jackson, making fun of everybody and slanging with acquired American accent. How condescending!
- THE SIN OF BETRAYAL AND TREACHERY
The members of the Party in Dome Kwabenya strongly believe that it was their MP, Adwoa Safo who betrayed the NPP on the eve of January 7, 2021 during the election of a new Speaker of Parliament. Their belief was confirmed by a lot of the NPP MPs including some of their leaders as well as Party executives. She voted for the NDC’s Alban Bagbin to become Speaker as against the President’s choice and for that matter the NPP’s candidate. In effect, today, because of Adwoa Safo’s betrayal and treachery, the Parliament of Ghana under an NPP government, has an NDC Speaker.
No wonder Adwoa Safo has become the “darling girl” of the Minority in Parliament and their Speaker. They even praise her for helping them to sabotage government business in Parliament. And when her seat was supposed to be declared vacant in consonance with the Constitution of the Republic for abandoning Parliament and acting in contempt of the august house, Speaker Bagbin and the Minority again rose to her defense. They defied the provisions of the Constitution for the sake of their “darling girl”.
Adwoa Safo’s betrayal is also strongly felt at the Constituency level. She has betrayed all the people who stood by her during her low moments. She has betrayed her close associates including her Personal Assistants and former campaign team members. She betrayed the Constituency Executives who supported her particularly the Constituency Chairman who defied all odds and stood by Adwoa. She worked against Chairman Bonsu’s bid for the MCE job, not once, but on two occasions.
That is Adwoa Safo for you. No wonder her name has become synonymous with betrayal and treachery in Dome Kwabenya. Her political sins cannot be listed exhaustively. The people of Dome Kwabenya particularly the party delegates are 100% justified when they say they have had enough of Adwoa Safo, and would not make a mistake to vote for her. Dome Kwabenya indeed, deserves a better representation, and so, shall it be, by the grace of God.
